“While it may have originated from the need to ascertain paternity, fatherhood has long-since crossed over the wall of mere biology into concepts of identity, symbolism, and psychological inquiry.”
My health app starts to crack near day 47 of my menstrual cycle. Since going off hormonal contraception (for good this time!), I’ve started using it to track my periods, and the poor thing is confused. For two weeks it alerted me that my period was due to start. When the window lapsed, it […]
My father appeared in my doorway on the first Monday of the New Year to inform me that my grandfather had died. I responded with the enthusiasm of someone learning their dentist appointment had been rescheduled. Zayde – Yiddish for grandfather, though in our case it might as well have been Yiddish for “benevolent curmudgeon”- […]
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.” —Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation. “The way paranoia has of understanding anything is by imitating and embodying it. (…) What does knowledge do—the pursuit of it, the having and exposing of it (…)” —Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading. “It takes two to Tango.” […]
Somewhere in the internet’s collective imagination lives a place called the Khia Asylum—a metaphorical purgatory named after the rapper only known for one song, and a place where pop artists go when their relevance fizzles out but their career hasn’t quite caught up to that fact yet. Swedish pop star, Zara Larsson, had been a […]
There’s no doubt that the possibility of enrolment in what is generally considered to be the world’s most renowned public school should be regarded as a significant privilege in life, whatever career dreams for a young boy may or may not have prevailed in his family prior to entry. Operating under the rules of […]
Heart Lamp takes you by the hand and plunges you into the tangled chaos of the everyday lives of Muslim women in Karnataka. Where children dart through rooms, wronged women await justice with patience born from disappointment, disloyal husbands avoid consequences, and families navigate domestic life. The twelve short stories, written over a thirty-three-year period, […]
Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for Season 6 of Peaky Blinders “It means you f*** people over. Don’t give a f***. Covet and steal and burn all principles for self-interest. Well, I’m changing,” Thomas Shelby says, almost tenderly, when asked to define his “moral turpitude.” “It would make a fine name for a racehorse,” he smirks. That’s […]
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “To a philosopher, all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.” In You Didn’t Hear This From Me, Kelsey McKinney takes a similar view of her ever-expanding, ever-present subject: gossip. She draws out the contradictions and […]
Part One: Juan-Les-Pins–Comic Books, Cold Chicken, and the Hotel Juana The summer vacation that I was fortunate enough to experience, one school term prior to passing through the hallowed portals of study at Eton College, Windsor, Bucks., I remember fondly as one of the jewels set tight over the gateway of my early adolescence. On […]